Latest Fundamentalism stories on ABC Online

The Prime Minister Tony Abbott will deliver a key address on national security on Monday. There's speculation his Government might move to ban Islamic group Hizb ut-Tahrir and might move to change laws on dual citizenship. But some security experts say a ban would be ineffective and perhaps even ...

In January 1979 Bob Dylan committed an act that outraged people around the world. It had nothing to do with sex drugs or rock n roll. Well, not directly anyway. In an apartment in West Los Angeles Dylan met with two pastors from the evangelical Vineyard Fellowship and soon after publicly committed ...

In another video, Islamic State militants have vowed to kill two Japanese hostages unless the Japanese government pays a $200 million ransom. That's the same amount of money Japan's promised in non-military aid to countries hit hard by IS violence. The Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe says he ...

At the same time as the standoff at the printing plant north of the capital, in Paris there was a second standoff at a kosher supermarket in the east of the city. Another gunman with alleged links to the Kouachi brothers had taken at least five people hostage on Friday in what president Francois ...

North of Paris, police stormed a printing plant killing the two brothers accused of the attacks on the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, and freeing a hostage. The printing plant siege was the culmination of a three-day manhunt for brother Said and Charif Kouachi, who were the main ...